What is your pickleball mentality going into a game?

[Landon (Landon Daly)]

I really like what @PickleballPhil said here

@PickleballPhil

You must drill and have the skill required to hit the shots you are wanting. If you don’t have the skill, it’s impossible to be the best. So work on them.

Because when I get into tournament matches I don’t have to focus SO much mental energy on playing because I can let the muscle memory and trained intuition take over. After trying to remove all of that from the table I focus on two big things that I wrote on my paddle:

1. 
   
   Just as @asktiffnow said: “take deep breaths.” It’s crazy what a deep breath can do in the heat of a battle. Calms the nerves and settles the mind.

2. This comes next and has seriously helped set the tone of my play for the last little while. It says “BQDH”. It’s short for the John Wooden quote"
   “Be Quick BUT Don’t Hurry”
   

   

[atuttletuttle (AMBER TUTTLE)]

Love this and all your input. I used to write on my paddle also. I used to have move your feet on my old paddle. thanks for sharing I really like BQDH